SSC 2015 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

The correct answer is C, Philippines. The Ramon Magsaysay Award is named after Ramon Magsaysay, the seventh President of the Philippines, who died in an air crash in 1957. The award was created that same year by the trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in New York with the agreement of the Philippine government, and it is presented every year at Manila on 31 August, his birth anniversary. It honours greatness of spirit and transformative leadership in Asia and is often called Asia's Nobel Prize. Vinoba Bhave was its first Indian recipient, in 1958. A is wrong because Myanmar has no link with the award, though some of its citizens have won it. B is wrong because Magsaysay was never connected with Malaysia. D is wrong because Sweden is associated with the Nobel Prize, not with the Magsaysay Award. Exam tip: Ramon Magsaysay - President of the Philippines; award instituted in 1957 and given at Manila; first Indian winner Vinoba Bhave.

The correct answer is B, Ukraine. The Chernobyl nuclear power plant stands near the town of Pripyat in northern Ukraine, close to the border with Belarus, and was part of the Soviet Union when reactor number four exploded on 26 April 1986 in the worst nuclear accident in history. The explosion during a late night safety test blew off the reactor roof and scattered radioactive material across much of Europe. Pripyat was evacuated, an exclusion zone of 30 kilometres was drawn around the plant and it is still in force. The last working reactor at the site was shut down in December 2000, so the plant is now closed. A is wrong because Russia, though also a Soviet republic at the time, does not contain the site. C is wrong because Belarus received much of the fallout but the plant is not on its soil. D is wrong because Georgia has no connection with the accident. Exam tip: Chernobyl - Ukraine, 26 April 1986; Fukushima - Japan, 2011; Three Mile Island - United States, 1979.